2024-03-19 04:33:47
Koreans are making another fallacy. Writer Kim Jin-myung claimed that Koreans have long had “historical misunderstandings”. In fact, Chinese characters were created by Koreans.
When Yin Xiyue gave a campaign speech, he used a banner with Chinese characters “If you must live, you must die, if you must die, live” to show your courage and determination.
On February 1, local time, the Korean TV program “Big Question” uploaded a video of about 20 minutes on YouTube.
In the video, Korean writer Kim Jin-myung “teaches” Koreans to learn “correct history.” He said that there are as many as 3 million cases of Korean people misunderstanding history, and the most widely misunderstood among them is the origin of Chinese characters. He claimed that this was because Korea was historically a vassal state of China, so people “naturally” believed that Chinese characters originated from China, making it difficult to imagine that Chinese characters actually originated from Korea.
Video screenshot
Jin Zhenming said that from a Chinese perspective, because the Han Dynasty was the largest country in history at that time, the characters were named after the dynasty and were called “Chinese characters”. He also “regrets” that South Korea’s names such as “Han River” and “Daehan Gate” are all the result of the influence of being a client state of China.
Immediately afterwards, Jin Zhenming went on to “rhetoric” and expressed his so-called understanding:
“But in fact, Chinese characters were not created by China. They were created by our (Korean) people…and “Chinese characters” should be called “Yin characters” because Chinese characters were actually developed on the basis of the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Shang Dynasty, and the Yin Shang Dynasty (The Shang Dynasty) is not a Chinese country, it was created by the Dongyi people. The only Dongyi people left now are Koreans and Japanese, so in fact, Chinese characters were created by our ancestors, the Dongyi people.” He He also said, “Understanding history means that a country cannot become an ‘advanced country’ and humans cannot become an ‘advanced human being.'”
The show currently has 950,000 views on YouTube. However, Jin Zhenming’s remarks were “understood” by domestic netizens. One netizen said, “I endured it until I finished watching (this video). It felt like some kind of “creation science” logic, which made me very embarrassed.”
Others said, “Why do you still covet Chinese characters? The pronunciation of Korean is very suitable for Korean language expression (way), and that is enough.” “Kim Jin-myung (he) is still crazy after all.” “Those who claim to be history Most novelists (all have a tendency) make random nonsense without verifying it.”
The argument that “the Dongyi people, the ancestors of Koreans, spread Chinese characters” has been around for a long time in Korea. According to a report by South Korean conservative media NewDaily in 2011, Chen Taeha, founder of South Korea’s “National Federation for the Promotion of Chinese Character Education,” believes that the Han people did not create Chinese characters, and there was no name “Hanzi” during the Han Dynasty; Chinese characters are Dongyi, the ancestors of Koreans. The writing system developed by the Chinese people on the basis of oracle bone inscriptions.
The history of the Korean Peninsula has always been divided into two schools. One school believes that Korea originated from the Yin Shang Dynasty, which is the so-called “Jizi Korea”; the other school promotes more nationalism and says that Korea originated from the myth of Tangun. This school currently It is the Juche view of history in the Republic of Korea, while in South Korea it was excluded from history textbooks during the Park Chung-hee period as “unscientific and lacking archaeological evidence.” However, relying on these two historical views, the Korean Peninsula forcibly extended its so-called national history to more than 3,000 years ago.
The remarks of the Korean writer clearly endorse the Korean historical view of the first Jizi Joseon – Korea originated from the Yin and Shang Dynasties. But the problem is that the Yin merchants used oracle bones, but on the one hand, oracle bones were not used in the Korean Peninsula, and on the other hand, no oracle bone inscriptions were excavated. His remarks are untenable and cannot withstand scrutiny.
Moreover, at that time, North Korea directly borrowed the Chinese character system of the Central Plains Dynasty. When the Lee Dynasty of the Joseon Dynasty promoted its own writing system, Hunminzhengyin, it encountered strong opposition from the upper-class nobles and scholars. The reason they gave was that “this is the same as China.” Yi Di is what is called abandoning the fragrance of Suhe and taking the pills of mantis.”
In other words, to give up Chinese and learn the so-called Korean is to abandon advanced Chinese culture and reduce oneself to the level of Yi Di ignorance. It is a foolish move to give up the precious styrax and use low-grade mantis pills.
Now Korean writers have secretly changed the concept and claimed that the Chinese characters learned from ancient times on the Korean Peninsula are their own original creations.
In fact, this is not the first time that Koreans have done something similar. As early as two years ago, Korean citizen groups produced “Spring Festival posters” to protest against the United Nations’ issuance of the Chinese Lunar Calendar series of commemorative promotional materials.
The “Tiger Sniffs the Rose” stamp released by the United Nations in 2022 celebrates the Chinese Lunar New Year.
A factual background is that since the 1960s, South Korea has adopted a policy of de-sinicization of culture for more than 50 years. Although many Korean nationalists talk about “cultural autonomy” in front of others, they I know very well what is truly good.
There is no doubt that Koreans did use Chinese characters in ancient times, but on the other hand, it is a bit too shameless to say that they created Chinese characters themselves.
Whether they are fighting over the name of the Spring Festival or saying that Chinese characters were created by Koreans, on the surface it is just some people playing word games, but in fact they are fighting for the right to speak internationally.
The Korean writer’s first conclusion: Hanzi was created by Koreans. But what about the evidence? Is it because all ancient Korean documents are recorded in Chinese?
The second historical conclusion: Hunminjeongeum was also created by Koreans.
The general background at that time: Hunminjeongyin was invented by King Sejong based on the pronunciation characteristics of Korean to facilitate the implementation of his orders and ruling ideas. One can compare King Sejong the Great’s release of proverbs to Zhou Youguang’s release of Hanyu Pinyin.
The Korean Peninsula did not have its own written language for a long time. For a long time, the upper class society on the Korean Peninsula relied on the introduction of Chinese characters to build its own language writing and cultural system. In fact, not only the Korean Peninsula, Japan, South Korea, and Yue are all part of the Greater China cultural circle. There are a large number of Chinese characters in Japanese, and North Korea and Vietnam directly use the Chinese character writing system – although North Korea later had Hangul (Hunminjeongyin), Vietnam has the word Nang. However, the purpose of Chaoyue’s creation of proverbs and zinan was simply to simply record the spoken language of the nation. Although proverbs are “pictographic and the characters imitate ancient seal scripts,” they are still essentially a pinyin script.
This leads to the third fact in history: Hunmin Zhengeum and Yanwen have long been opposed, resisted and despised by the Yangban class, and can only be popular among the other three classes, especially women.
What is the Yangban class and what are the other three classes? Similar to the caste system in India, in the ancient Korean Peninsula, there was also a status hierarchy that divided people into four classes, namely yangban, middle people, good people, and untouchables. Two of the classes were the first to be developed and established.
“Yi Shu Gua” says: “The sage faces the south and listens to the world.” This means that in ancient China, the south was regarded as the place of honor, so when the emperor and princes met with their ministers, or when the scholar-bureaucrats met with their officials, they all faced the south. The state structure of Goryeo basically followed the Tang system, so the king also followed the practice of “listening to the government from the south.” The king faced the south, and ministers stood on the left and right sides. The east side was the Wen class and the west side was the Wu class. Therefore, there were Wen and Wu classes. According to Yangban.
With the development of the times, yangban has gradually developed from an official concept to an identity concept representing social status, becoming a synonym for the upper ruling class below the royal power.
The fourth historical fact: In the late Goryeo Dynasty, many rural officials passed the imperial examination and successfully entered the yangban system. Some medical officers and translators also entered the yangban system by virtue of serving the Mongols and having close relations with the Yuan Empire.
To put it bluntly, some people have achieved a class jump through professional skills and literacy. Similar to the process of Sanskritization that uplifts castes in India.
Can the Sanskritization of Indian castes be reflected by changes in diet and living habits? What does the class jump on the Korean Peninsula rely on? Naturally, it means learning Chinese characters, reading Confucian classics, and becoming a knowledgeable person.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the upper class firmly opposed and boycotted Hun Min Zheng Eum.
The fifth fact of history: After Li Chenggui established the Li family’s Joseon, he rectified the Yangban system on a large scale. He believed that the rapid expansion of personnel in the Yangban system caused social conflicts to intensify.
In view of the large number of rural officials, Li Chenggui restricted their qualifications to take the imperial examination, and also forcibly restored the rural officials among the two classes of bureaucracy, restricted the power of the two classes, established a supervisory department for township officials, and clearly distinguished the status levels between the two classes and township officials. , also carried out extensive downgrades of subordinate officials, technical officers and concubines, differentiated the Yangban class during the Goryeo Dynasty, and clearly refined and established a strict hierarchical four-min status structure centered on Yangban landlords.
The North Koreans never dreamed that in the Yuan Dynasty, when the four classes were ruled by blatant racial discrimination, everyone would still have a way to rise. However, in the Ming Dynasty, this way was blocked by the Lee family of Jeolla.
During the Li Dynasty, the Yangbans were the upper ruling class (similar to Brahmins and Kshatriyas), and the middle class were mostly downgraded officials and technical officers (Kshatriyas). Their status was inferior to the Yangbans and higher than that of the good men, forming the lower class of bureaucracy. Classes, good people are mostly engaged in agriculture and industry and commerce (similar to Vaishyas), have low education levels, and have the obligation to pay taxes and perform military service, while untouchables are at the most oppressed bottom of society (Sudras and untouchables).
North Korea’s status system is extremely strict. Only officials born in the second class can be promoted to the first rank. The highest rank for middle-ranking officials can only be promoted to the third rank. Among them, those who are non-commissioned officers and rural officials are limited to the fifth rank, and those who are subordinates are limited to the seventh rank. In principle, a bitch cannot hold an official position.
By the time of King Sejong the Great, North Korea had developed into two ruling classes, with the “Bunban” and the “Martial Class” as the main body, and the middle class – the common people class, the good people – the good service class and the untouchable class as the main body. the ruled class.
The seventh fact of history: Among the good people and the untouchables, many were slaves of the nobles, men were slaves and women were maids, mainly based on blood, criminals, and prisoners of war.
Audiences who have watched the Korean drama “Empress Myeongseong” may have an impression of a word in it – slave document. At that time, when the Donghak Party uprising was performed in the drama, that is, the Donghak Party signed the “Jeonju” document after negotiations with the court. “Contract”, in addition to armistice and “fighting the local tyrants and dividing the fields”, it also included “burning slave documents”, “allowing young widows to remarry”, “not forcing butchers to wear Pyongyang hats” and other contents to break feudalism.
The eighth historical fact: Before King Sejong invented Hunminjeongeum, many kings, including Wang Jian, tried to reform the slave system, but encountered great resistance and were strongly opposed by the yangban nobles. This is actually a fierce battle between the so-called “Chinese” and “local customs”. The promulgation and implementation of Hunminjeongeum was actually one of the methods used by King Sejong to strengthen local customs and restrict resistance to the nobles.
This is interesting. When King Sejo of Joseon issued the Proverbs and Hunminjeongeum, he said, “The pronunciation of the country is different from that of China, and does not match the written language. Therefore, there are many foolish people who want to speak but are unable to express their feelings. This is why I am sorry that the twenty-eight characters have been newly made to make it easy for everyone to learn and use them every day.”
However, King Sejong’s behavior at that time was severely opposed, resisted and protested by North Korea’s upper class society, especially scholars.
Netizen “Liu Zhaoting” said that under the circumstances at that time, the Korean aristocrats strongly opposed the use of proverbs. They still knew how to save face, but they only emphasized that “abandoning Chinese and using orthodox pronunciation” was “giving up China’s identity with Yi and Di”, which is the so-called abandoning Suhe. “Take a mantis pill for its fragrance”, and there has never been a violent argument that “Chinese characters were created by Koreans”. How come you are now “stealing” everything in order to promote so-called nationalism?
In other words, how many Chinese characters do Koreans still know today? The average person may only be able to read a few hundred characters, and due to the promotion and popularization of Korean, the accuracy of Korean expressions has declined. If they really invented Chinese characters, it just means that Koreans have become the most embarrassing people in the world. nation…
hair applause
**Blog articles are written at your own responsibility and do not represent the position of our company**
Malatang in Tianshui, Gansu Province has become popular recently. The local government has opened a special bus line for Malatang and even released an English promotional video.
Welcome to Tianshui!Gansu Tianshui Malatang is so popular that the local government has specially produced an English promotional video #taste of China pic.twitter.com/UNcBgBxIBI
— China News Service (@CNS1952) March 14, 2024
CCTV reported that compared to the ever-popular Sichuan Malatang or the sticky Malatang from Northeast China, Gansu has quietly taken Malatang, a national snack, to another extreme by combining it with local ingredients. It has a unique flavor and is of its own. .
According to reports, a blogger drove more than 300 kilometers from Xi’an to Tianshui, Gansu Province, and made a special trip to check out Tianshui Malatang. “The spicy peppers in Gangu County, Tianshui may be the most delicious peppers on the planet.” And “Southern Little Potato” traveled 1,668 kilometers and took three trains to Tianshui, Gansu Province because of watching videos of Gansu Malatang. “It was the first time I had to wait in such a long queue to eat Malatang.”
The local government organizes special buses at Tianshui Airport to pick up tourists to eat spicy hotpot. Some stores were so busy that they had to take a day off to prepare ingredients.
Many netizens who were greedy but couldn’t eat it also left messages: “What does it taste like?” and “When can it be delivered to my door?” Faced with this “overwhelming wealth”, Gansu netizens urgently urged Tianshui Cultural Tourism to “get up and work”. Whether Tianshui Cultural Tourism can become the light of cultural tourism after “Erbin” depends on how Tianshui Cultural Tourism performs.
Why is Gansu Malatang so popular? In many check-in videos, people have mentioned the three keywords of wide noodles, potato chips, and spicy food.
If the sesame sauce “milk cap” is the “identity card” of Northeastern Malatang, then the rich and colorful spicy spicy seeds are the “medal” of Gansu Malatang. Gangu is known as the “hometown of peppers”. Due to its unique soil, climate and other natural conditions, Gangu peppers are bright in color, thick in flesh and rich in oil, and have a strong flavor. Gansu’s spicy oil is just “fiery” in appearance, but its spiciness is not overpowering. It is mainly fragrant, and even has a slight aftertaste when you taste it carefully.
Online pictures
The hand-rolled noodles that have captured the hearts of many netizens are the absolute top choice among Gansu Malatang. Dingxi is known as the “Hometown of Chinese Sweet Potatoes”. Dingxi Sweet Potatoes have high starch content and high stickiness. The hand-kneaded flour made from Dingxi Sweet Potato Starch can be said to be an exclusive delicacy in Gansu. The store uses potato starch to knead the noodles and cut them into strips. The crystal-clear and transparent fresh noodles will not mix with the soup after being cooked for a long time, and it is full of chewiness in the mouth. Take it in with the soul soup and spicy food, it is a rare divine delicacy.
In addition to all kinds of potato noodles, thinly sliced potato chips that melt in your mouth, and fried meatballs made of potato shreds, filled with thick red soup and juicy in your mouth, are also must-haves in Gansu Malatang. An indispensable presence.
In response, many netizens said they could no longer sit still after seeing the picture. Some netizens said, “Mala Tang is going to become popular in the city” and “I must go there this year.” Some netizens also urged Gansu Cultural Tourism to “catch this overwhelming wealth.”
According to the report, I made an appointment with a few friends to have a delicious meal of spicy hotpot, and then went to Maijishan Grottoes and Fuxi Temple for sightseeing… A bowl of hand-made noodles and a plate of spicy hotpot made Tianshui hot. Nowadays, taking the high-speed train or plane to Tianshui and tasting this bowl of “piping hot” has become a new trendy experience on the Internet. Make good use of the successful experiences of Zibo and Erbin to launch the Tianshui Malatang brand, capture the “wealth from the sky”, and drive the development of the entire city. To achieve such a goal, ensuring health, providing good services, and strengthening supervision are indispensable supporting measures, and they are inseparable from the efforts of everyone in the city. I hope Malatang, as a small fulcrum, can leverage Gansu’s cultural tourism industry.
1710850247
#South #Korea #rob #stealing #timeWriter #Chinese #characters #created #Koreans